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A former South Texas juvenile justice department employee has been arrested for felony theft after authorities say he acknowledged stealing $1.2 million worth of fajitas over nine years, the AP reports. Cameron County District Attorney Luis Saenz tells the Brownsville Herald that Gilberto Escaramilla was fired in August and arrested after authorities obtained a search warrant and found packages of the Tex-Mex food in his refrigerator.

Investigators subsequently checked vendor invoices and determined he would intercept county-funded food deliveries and deliver them to his own customers.The scheme imploded when he missed work one day in August for a medical appointment and a delivery driver showed up with 800 pounds of fajitas, but officials said the juvenile department didn't serve fajitas. Escaramilla was arrested last week on the more serious felony theft charge.

Sysco and USF are big suppliers to prisons. Well prisons and schools, its all the same. Fajita meat is a very big seller at both places. I personally don't like it because it tastes like it was heated up in a steam table. But its cheap and you don't have to cook anything because they also sell the veggies that are already cooked and all you do is cut open the bags and dump them into the same steam table as the meat you just dumped frozen into it. If you cover them up, in about an hour it will thaw out and get hot enough to serve. Just open up the plastic bags of tortillas that you had heating in a proofer and serve. Now it's not horrible but you surely know you are not eating restaurant grade fajitas.